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I APPLICATION FILED DBO. 1 7, 1912. 1,078,406. Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

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Specification of Letters'Patent.

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To aZZw/lom it may. concern:

'Be it known that I, HARRY L. DAY, 2. citizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cross-Ties, of which the following is a specification. f The present application relates to ties for railway rails. 11 carrying out my invention, it is my purpose to provide a" tie which shall be constructed of metal and which shall embody a pair of coacting elements which, when sesleepers 1. The members comprising the ties 2 are provided with lugs 5 which are arranged angularly upon the said ties and which nal edges of the ties. ther provided The members are furadjacent their end, formed with the rail-engaging members 3, with additional lugs 6. Each of these lugs has its outer face formed to conform with the. shape of the side of the rail with which it is adapted to engage. 'The lugs-6 are each formed with an angular face 7, the same being procured together, will sustain the rails either vided with an angular opening 9. The lug in a direct longitudinal path or at an incli- 3 is also provided with an angularly arnation or angle. ranged opening 10, the bore of which is A further object of the invention is the threaded. provision of a simple but effective means for sustaining the ties against either longitudi nal or lateral movement.

With the above recited objects in View and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully disclosed, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth and falling within the scope of the appended claim. 7 In the drawing, Figure l is a top plan view of a railroad, showing the rails supported upon and connected through the medium of my improved ties, Fig. 2 is a upon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, perspective view of one of the tle sections. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail plan views of one end of co-acting ties which are employed for connecting rail ends, Fig. 6 is a detail transverse sectional view upon the line 66 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 7 is a perof one of the tie sections employed for connecting the frogs or wedges of the rails.

Referring now to the drawings in detail,

struction, and it will be noted that when the coacting ties are brought together, and the rail-engaging elements 3 will contact with the opposite faces of the rails, while the members 6 will contact with the inner faces of the said rails, and further that by providing threaded elements, in the nature of bolts 12, which pass through the openings 9 and 10, respectively, the ties will be effectively connected. Furthermore, the teeth 4 of the ties, which are adapted to be tlvely prevent either'the lateral or longitudinal movement of the said ties, and consequently sustain the rails in a proper position upon the ties. When the ties are to be employed for connecting the meeting ends of rails, the members 3 are engaged and pro: vided with openings 12 for the reception of securing elements, such as nuts and bolts. At switches and other curved portions of the rails, certain of the ties have rail-engaging lugs 13 which are arranged at proper points upon the ties to receive the rails, and the numeral 1 designates the sleepers'for the a separable fish plate 14 is also provided for ties, the same preferably embodying subthe opposite sides or faces of the rails, to stantially rectangular wooden members .those engaged by the lugs.

which have their ends connected in any dc- From the above description, taken in consired or preferred manner. Arranged transnection with the drawings, the simplicity versely of the sleepers 1 are the ties 2. Each. of the device as well as the advantages of theseties embodies a substantially recthereof will, it is thought, tangular metallic member, and each of the those skilled in the art to which this inven said ties is provided adjacent one of its ends tion appertains.

with rail engaging lugs 3, while dis osed Having thus described the invention, what upon the under face of each of the said ties, I claim is adjacent the lugs 3, are biting teeth 4 which Fig. 3 1s a Patented Sept. 16,1913.

are adapted to be embedded within the are disposed at. one of the longitudi- As stated, the ties are of asimilar con- In a device for the purpose'set forth, tie

embedded within the sleeper 1 will efi'ec be apparent to members having their under faces formeth Within the openings and thethreads pro- 10 with teeth, rail-engaglng elements integrally vided in the openings.

formed upon each of the tie members, angn- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 7 larly darranged vertically ccllisposed ldugs infpresence of two Witnesses.

5 forme with openin s and is osed a jacent the rail-engagin g elements, one of the HARRY LEIGH openings provided upon each of the lugs be- Witnesses: ing threaded, and oppositely disposed bolt C. H. HUNGARLAND, members having threaded shanks engaging MINNIE MARTIN. I

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